Government
NZ’s resource management rules have been rewritten. What happens after the election?
As each new environmental assessment shows, the impacts on New Zealand’s natural and urban areas are only compounding.
News
Editorial coverage from the Australian Capital Territory Australia Wire newsroom.
- Environment
View from The Hill: Albanese puts cat among One Nation pigeons with staff offer
Pauline Hanson has accused Anthony Albanese of “grubby dealings” after he offered an extra staffer to One Nation’s David Farley, and the government allegedly held out the prospect of grant money for water, a central issue with the MP.
- Science
Looking for bats after dark can help science – and change how we see them
What’s that chirping sound coming through the detector? Did you feel something whiz past?
Real EstateKnocking on strangers’ doors? How to help your kids have a safe Halloween
For most of the year, parents teach children not to talk to strangers, not to accept things from people they don’t know, and to take care when crossing the road.
- Culture
‘Uncontrolled warrior culture’: Australia’s special forces under fire in new inquiry
The inspector-general of the Australian Defence Force has released the executive summary of an inquiry into the culture and command of Australian special forces in Afghanistan.
- Culture
‘What we leave behind is not as important as how we’ve lived’: remembering actor Patrick Stewart
At the end of Star Trek: Generations (1994), surveying the wreckage of the crashed USS Enterprise he captained for nearly a decade, Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) muses to his first officer, William Riker (Jonathan Frakes):
- Government
Mushroom murderer Erin Patterson has lost her appeal and received a harsher sentence. Legal experts explain why
Erin Patterson has lost her appeal against her 2025 convictions on three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.
- Culture
Josh Frydenberg’s autobiography might be one of the longest job applications in history
A Grateful Son, the first book by Josh Frydenberg – former federal treasurer, former deputy leader of the Liberal Party, and former member for Kooyong – might be regarded as one of the longest job applications in history.
GovernmentA wise woman who turned fish eggs into beasts: meet an ancient witch from Mesopotamia
This Halloween, trick-or-treaters the world over will don pointy black hats and drag along a broom as they trawl the neighbourhood in pursuit of lollies.
EnvironmentFlying-foxes are turning up starving. Why are we still responding one crisis at a time?
Once again, Australia’s flying-foxes are in trouble.
HealthHalloween is typically a massive lolly fest for kids – but it doesn’t have to be
Halloween can be a massive lolly fest. Children come home from trick-or-treating ready to dig into a sackful of lollies and chocolate bars.
ScienceFriday essay: forget Big Brother, propaganda is now a form of hybrid warfare
In early October, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham made the categorical assertion that Russia had interfered in the 2016 Brexit referendum. He did not specify whether he had new evidence.